Mr.
Matt
Spangler

peachfuzz:

If you give a shit about health, food, education, or the fact that kids growing up today will live ten years less than the generation before them due to our abysmal processed diet, then I recommend this show:

http://www.hulu.com/jamie-olivers-food-revolution

Great photo series on The Morning News but I couldn’t disagree more with this being depressing. In fact I think its kind of exhilarating. It feels like nature doing away with something unnecessary and personally I think represent the best of what has come out of our most recent recession.

It happens to me every year.  As Christmas approaches and retailer reports reach a fever pitch, I undertake a yearly analysis of corporate culture and seek out the writings with opposing viewpoints.  This year its been revisiting videos like the Story of Stuff and their new one on Cap & Trade and finishing Life Inc. As far back as I can remember, I have always hated shopping malls.  I find them to be soulless and lonely. In his book Douglas Rushkoff recounts the history of malls and the creation of “atmospherics”, the science of manipulating shoppers to buy more. Hopefully the loss of these palaces to consumerism will mean a return to local, connected and meaningful planning for our communities.

via brandonnn:

Dead malls are among the most depressing things in the world.

Ghosts of Shopping Past - The Morning News

Finally got around to reading the great profile of James Cameron in the New Yorker written by Dana Goodyear.  It lead me to check out the Pace 3D camera site to learn more about Vince Pace and the equipment they designed for Avatar.

I couldn’t help but wonder if the designers of hboimagine.com had gone to the site as inspiration after seeing the interface similarity.

Seems well positioned to take advantage of the stat from Andy Bateman, President of Interbrand’s, talk tonight at the Soho House where he stated that video initiations have passed Google searches in volume.  Or something like that (editor’s note…not sure where he got that stat from).

via jamiew:

This morning we publicly launched Mag.ma! Go forth and watch videos

Some press coverage: Mashable, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, and of course the always vocal twittersphere